Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-02


these. These are some OF the prooieInS "
solve.
Will social war do more and better FOL
US. in these respects, than the late civli war;
Would not all the war energies De pro-
dueed with greater fierceneSs, ana ne"
brood of spectators and contractors nave
the same means TO spoliate and plumber,
and society settle back under the remOrse-
less exaetion? Would society be 0ene-
fitted by having such new men IN power
who would gain their power by the slcrl,
flee of society itself? Would tney
administer the charities, the benelae,
tions. and the educatiye ministry OF
life better than the men of the republic
would do and have done, who had Deen
educated in the great historical century u
our country? In any utOpian dream OF
society what provision will Father McGlynn
make for the relations between priests ana
preachers, and between these and the peo-
ME. what will be the subsistence OF the
teachers and the pupils in their relations
to each other? low will the incomes Oh
scholars and writers be regulated, ana tne
fees of The professional nOn-producers:
Touch human society anywhere and the
inequality of conditions, capacities ana
pursuits spring up at once, and VINO VII,
determine the equities between skilled ana
unskilled or incapable labor, or between
the profits Of the different farmers aud each
other. or those other members oil society:
VIII Mr.. George have dead level OF
wages between the different classes
of the EMPLOYED, or how adjust his tariff
of wages between the differences oil skill,
character, and industry between the mem
beers of the same class?
If the Maehiavel of Maine shall attempt
TO reduce these inequalities and trouOitS,
Ito which he has contributed so much Will
he entrust Father McGlynn and Mr.
George to preach new iaquerie; Will ne
bring the cOlOred people North, or Will nc
take white people South; will he, Ill the
virulence of his native character and IN the
bitterness of his disappointed ambition al
the loss of West Virginia in lSSi, continue
his unstatesman-like course, and keep alive
sectional hostilities, and pursue that same
line of domestic policy, which by its
own inherent production OF Inequalities
now threaten to bring upon us
the most disastrous consequences IN the
resort to arms TO maintain the peace, n
not the blOOdier arbitration OF social war:
We speak of arbitration. What does
this mean, in such cases, but the division
of the undue profits OF the capitalists under
their high protective tariffs with the wages
of.their wOrkmen when all these Unequal,
tiles of skill and wages Of labor exist. All
other members of society, the producers
and the consumers, are ut once outside oil
the issue They must pay the eXactions
ofboth, and these cXactiOns do not tend to
lessen the growing competition OF all the
other classes. We here reach the very
cores of the policies of the two political
parties in this country. Our heritage from
the civil war was IN immense national
debt, the largest national revenue in the
world, and q circulating medium for ouT
country and the whole world, OF which
there is no example in history.
That this circulating medium, belong
ing to individual capitalists, should have
been employed in large measure in the con-
structiOn of our great system OF railroads,
tending TO promote the nOblcst civilization
of all time, is the glory of this age; thai
other large portions of the floating capital
should have been devoted TO manufactures
and the arts of peace was the political and
moral necessity, which, IN less than cen
tury, has added more than twenty ne"
States of large areas, and more than forty
five millions OF souls to its population.
This measures, very directly, the numbers,
skill and labor of the agrICulturiSts, and
shows that they should have the FULL pro
lection of the law, before which all men
are equal. The law itself, by its own
terms and operations, should not create
any inequality. 1t should not impose dl-
rect burthens on one class for the benefit
of another or Others.
As the Government must he sustained
il should be so done ut the least expense
TO the peOplc-at least expense to theS'
| farmers who produce the necessities OF lli'
| for all, and at the least expense to the
millions of the labOring population whose
| food and raiment should not he taxed t.
| them for the benefit Ot men who divide
undue profits between them. The frs
| lesson, therefore, in true republicanism Il
strict economy in the expenditures OF the
Government. The next lesson il tina
there shall be no inequalities in Legislation
| The third lesson is that there shall be Inc
increase of oflicehOlders beyond actual ne
ctssity, and so no increase of the otlicla
army whose presence at the polls would
make the election farce. So, in the very
nature of our Government there can b'
no such thing Us free trade. 1t Il
the scare crow OF political charlatan,
who chatter and make noises and Startlt
the crowds from their propricty. Unde
the Constitution of the Union the revenue
! for the general government could be col
lected by impOst duties on foreign impOr
tations Of all kinds, by direct taxes on the
people, or by both means combined. Tw'
parties, ut once, Sprang up. The one wa
headed and its principles and measure
shaped by Alexander Hamilton, who wa
oppused to all the leading features q
| republiCanism contained in the COnStitu
ton, WAS % mOnaTchiSt i'll all his public
tendencies, and man who openly avowet
that the English government, with all 1t
COrruptions, was the best government Ol
earth, and whose leading proposition Wa
tiat "a natiOnl debt WAS national bless
ing" rs it gave TO capital the means q
taxing care OF the llCn lillJ IuCN lhtSN
take care Ol-and rule the poor. The Othe
party was headed by Thomas Jefferson
aided by Edmund Randolph, jaime
Madison, and James Monroe, who op
posed the mOnarchical tendencies OF tn
HamiltouianS, opposed the measures 10
creating and maintaining great natlona
debt, ~ directly tending to the unncces
sary and unwhOleSOme taxation Of tn
people, rs giving undue power to the cen
trail government, aud as subOrdinating tn
States and the people of the Union to tn
cOrrupting measures which, in the opinion
of the IIamiltOnians, made the Englis
government the best machinery on cart
for securing and maintaining the politic:l
power in the hands of the few, and theS
few the capitalists and office holders, VIII
could take care of the many while the
themselves took care of the few. Som
changes of measures have taken place i
the political history of our country, bu
the principles of the two parties renal
the same, those OF the Democratic part
having been handed from Jefferson dow
through Madison, Monroe and Jackson (
the iirmneSs and integrity of Cleveland
The other party, made infamous To tn
people by the dcSpotic measures Of tn
administration of the elder Adams abar
dOned the old name of FederaliSt, an
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